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Archive listings for The Secret Consul (2011)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

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2011 Oliver Award winning Musical Director Andrew Charity (La Boheme) brings an international cast of rising opera stars and a chorus of fifteen to a found location in Limehouse, East London for an adaptation of Gian-Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Consul (1950), addressing the bureaucracy of immigration against a backdrop of Kafkaesque officialdom. The Secret Consul is the third in a series of site specific performances entitled A Whole World at War from The Wedding Collective. Led by Artistic Director Stephen Tiller, previous work in the site specific trilogy includes Warcrime on a young woman killed by a cluster bomb and staged in the crypt of a bombed church in Holborn, and The Daughter, based on a Palestinian schoolgirl presented at Truman’s Brewery in Brick Lane. First performed in the Schubert Theatre, Philadelphia in 1950 The Consul transferred to Broadway and won creator Gian-Carlo Menotti the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Set in a totalitarian regime in an unnamed European country The Consul tells the story of Magda’s desperate attempts to obtain a visa a leave the country so she can join her husband John, a political dissident.Director Stephen Tiller. Musical Director Andrew Charity. Director Naveen Arles (chorus). Design Tessa Battisiti. Performer Lesya Aleksyeyeva (Magda). Performer Rita Novikaite. Performer Masami Uehara. Performer Xiaoran Wang.
22 Jun 11 to 16 Jul 11General, Outer London :: V1087
listing details L1888323065

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